It does include a relatively _sane_ Nightmare Moon, actually. It's like... she won and had to grow the hell up FAST once she realized her toadying nobles actually were toadying...

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I suspect she found out, to quote Spock: "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting."

There is an entire rebel movement Tral, "The Dawn Will Come!" Just watch out for the Secret Police Ponies.

Also there is an imperial cult built around NMM, which at least right now she seems to find embarrassing, with her as 'The One Who Stayed Behind." She was rather upset at the Hierophant inviting Twilight Sparkle to a service, and forbade her to attend without Her Royal Self there as an escort.

There are also palace politics,

Twilight has the ire of two generations of Blue Blood, and all the other unicorn noble families that would dearly love their offspring to have her position, the Hierophant wants to convert Twilight, and the Resistance seems to have plans for Twilight Sparkle (codenamed Spark) which her apprenticeship seems to have spectacularly derailed.

Rarity's exploits in "Sweet and Elite" set in motion a chain of events that will find the unicorn dressmaker taking part in the greatest airship race in the world, the Alicorn's Cup. Excitement will give way to terror, as Rarity soon finds herself the victim of a plot against Equestria, and shipwrecked far from home with her least favorite stallion, the boorish Prince Blueblood. Rarity will learn of treachery in Canterlot and abroad, and will have search for something of substance beneath the prince's obnoxious veneer as she struggles to not only save herself, but her entire nation.

Its pretty good. Blueblood here shows him as smart yet still egotistical as well.

Rarity's exploits in "Sweet and Elite" set in motion a chain of events that will find the unicorn dressmaker taking part in the greatest airship race in the world, the Alicorn's Cup. Excitement will give way to terror, as Rarity soon finds herself the victim of a plot against Equestria, and shipwrecked far from home with her least favorite stallion, the boorish Prince Blueblood. Rarity will learn of treachery in Canterlot and abroad, and will have search for something of substance beneath the prince's obnoxious veneer as she struggles to not only save herself, but her entire nation.

Its pretty good. Blueblood here shows him as smart yet still egotistical as well.

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I should second this here, as well. My own review:

I've been waiting for this story to come out for some time.

(this is a copy of the FFN review, minus the intro bit here)

First, the structure of this story is excellent. You either have solid proofers working with you, or you handle self-correction better than I. Very, very few errors are to be found, and are generally minor ones that don't detract from the prose or the narration. For example:
: in chapter 2
She felt like she could say anything any get away with it,
She felt like she could say anything (and) get away with it,
:

Enough of the mundane "proofreader" response, though. The setting of the story is fabulous, and you do a superb job of describing in detail where the scenes take place, why, and how the characters fit into it. The vocabulary on display is top-notch, and I found myself smiling, because many of these little details were also matters that I had researched for Best Night Ever, not so long ago. In fact, reading this, I'd been prompted to make some changes to a hypothetical sequel, mostly in use of names (Polaris/Polaire for example, I'll have to pick another name now).

Beyond simply being constructed well and executed with loving detail (I am a reader and writer in love of good details and beefy narratives), the premise of the story is interesting on both a individual character level, and on a meta 'universe' level. This is very important, since while the meta-events drive the sum of the plot forward, it is the individual-level events and motivations that ground the reader and establish empathy with the words on the page.... or the words on the screen in this case.

I heartily recommend this fic, even incomplete at just 3 chapters so far, to anyone and everyone.
Also
Slap-slap-kiss! I'll admit I'm kind of a sucker for it.

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I have been waiting for this fic, actually. I was aware of it while in production, and was quite excited to see it enter the submissions and then queue at EQD! Very well done so far.

Explores the hard fact that one day only one of the mane six will be left and will have had to have watched all her friend's die one by one. The author also wroth Decay, which is also really sad. Warning though, manly tears will be shed.

QuestiondecaA little hard of hearing in one ear.Super Awesome Happy Fun Time

Edit: It's actually two chapters, and they show Trixie doesn't have all the information and that Twilight probably isn't thinking straight and is about to implement something that's, at the very least, a questionable plan considering her opponent with a spell I think literally makes her high.

"We all know about stories where Humans enter Equestria. But what about a world where Equestria is in the Human world? It is the year 1820, and a series of events brings a young unicorn and a human prince together. Together, they will embark on a quest to change Europe, and the world, forever."

After an experiment goes wrong, Twilight, for all intents and purposes, should be dead. Miraculously, she survives without a scratch. But her mind is plagued with a depressing question-what if she had died? Would anypony miss her? Would anypony care?

As I said I thought it was pretty good, both of these had some very nice worldbuilding in them. They're pretty long, I wound up reading them both today and I have that whole just read too much in one sitting feeling. Can't say that I'm sorry to have read them though.

Spoilers:

So yeah, the worldbuilding like I said was very cool. There were some seriously interesting ideas in it like these carnivorous wind spirits and the giant eldritch clock that moved the moon. I liked it better than Spark which shared the TwiLuna shipping/Twilight ascending to godhood thing, although that may just be because it did that without springing a tyrant Celestia on me (which is something really can't stand, any story where Celestia is anything but saintly, at least in her intentions, rubs me the wrong way). The whole TwiLuna romance was actually one of the weaker aspects of the story, not that it was bad but the pacing felt off. If it didn't have a shipping tag you might not realize Luna's feelings for Twilight until shortly before she expresses them to her. I think the best part of the story is Twilight and Luna's exploration of what turns out to be a reflection of Luna's own inner turmoil, it felt like a real adventure to me with every step being unexpected as they delt with all of these inner demons and learned more about Luna's history.

When they began to read the ancient book Twilight and Spike only had the slightest of ideas what it could possibly be about. As the illuminated inks revealed to them an image of Princess Celestia locked in combat with a massive dragon and his sons they realized that the song written upon the aged pages was telling of a long forgotten battle... and that the Celestia they know and love is capable of things they dare not imagine.

A story with a different story-telling style, detailing a conflict in the distant past where Celestia had to... resolved it personally.